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Hanan Rubin

Hanan Rubin was a German-born Israeli lawyer and Mapam politician who served as a member of the Knesset from 1949 to 1962.

1908 to 1962Mapam member of the KnessetDeputy Speaker of the KnessetCo-founding the Socialist League

Born: 10 August 1908, Berlin
Died: 24 October 1962, Israel
Occupation: politician, trade unionist, lawyer, jurist
Party: United Workers Party
Education: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, University of Freiburg

Hanan Rubin was born in 1908 in Berlin

Hanan Rubin was born Hans Rubin in Berlin in 1908. As a youth he was active in the Blue-White Zionist movement.

He studied law at universities in Berlin and Freiburg and earned a doctorate in law in 1932. As a student he was active in the Federation of Student Unions. In 1930 he joined the Social Democratic Party and later moved to the Socialist Workers' Party.

In 1933 he moved to Mandatory Palestine and first worked as a farm laborer. From 1934 he worked for the Histadrut, and in 1936 he was among the founders of the Socialist League. He later became one of the leaders of Mapam.

He was elected to the Knesset for Mapam in 1949 and was re-elected in 1951, 1955, 1959 and 1961. He sat on the constitution, finance and labor committees and served as Deputy Speaker. In 1952, during a protest against the reparations agreement with Germany, a stone thrown into the Knesset hall hit him in the head.

He died in 1962 while still in office, and Yosef Kushnir took his seat.